Querist eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 96 pages of information about Querist.

Querist eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 96 pages of information about Querist.

100.  Qu.  Whether a mint in Ireland might not be of great convenience to the kingdom; and whether it could be attended with any possible inconvenience to Great Britain?  And whether there were not mints in Naples and Sicily, when those kingdoms were provinces to Spain or the house of Austria?

101.  Qu.  Whether anything can be more ridiculous than for the north of Ireland to be jealous of a linen manufacturer in the south?

102.  Qu.  Whether the county of Tipperary be not much better land than the county of Armagh; and yet whether the latter is not much better improved and inhabited than the former?

103.  Qu.  Whether every landlord in the kingdom doth not know the cause of this?  And yet how few are the better for such their knowledge?

104.  Qu.  Whether large farms under few hands, or small ones under many, are likely to be made most of?  And whether flax and tillage do not naturally multiply hands, and divide land into small holdings, and well-improved?

105.  Qu.  Whether, as our exports are lessened, we ought not to lessen our imports?  And whether these will not be lessened as our demands, and these as our wants, and these as our customs or fashions?  Of how great consequence therefore are fashions to the public?

106.  Qu.  Whether it would not be more reasonable to mend our state than to complain of it; and how far this may be in our own power?

107.  Qu.  What the nation gains by those who live in Ireland upon the produce of foreign Countries?

108.  Qu.  How far the vanity of our ladies in dressing, and of our gentlemen in drinking, contributes to the general misery of the people?

109.  Qu.  Whether nations, as wise and opulent as ours, have not made sumptuary laws; and what hinders us from doing the same?

110.  Qu.  Whether those who drink foreign liquors, and deck themselves and their families with foreign ornaments, are not so far forth to be reckoned absentees?

111.  Qu.  Whether, as our trade is limited, we ought not to limit our expenses; and whether this be not the natural and obvious remedy?

112.  Qu.  Whether the dirt, and famine, and nakedness of the bulk of our people might not be remedied, even although we had no foreign trade?  And whether this should not be our first care; and whether, if this were once provided for, the conveniences of the rich would not soon follow?

113.  Qu.  Whether comfortable living doth not produce wants, and wants industry, and industry wealth?

114.  Qu.  Whether there is not a great difference between Holland and Ireland?  And whether foreign commerce, without which the one could not subsist, be so necessary for the other?

115.  Qu.  Might we not put a hand to the plough, or the spade, although we had no foreign commerce?

116.  Qu.  Whether the exigencies of nature are not to be answered by industry on our own soil?  And how far the conveniences and comforts of life may be procured by a domestic commerce between the several parts of this kingdom?

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